{"id":12880,"date":"2021-09-09T23:59:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T23:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=12880"},"modified":"2021-09-09T23:59:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T23:59:25","slug":"third-first-nations-person-dies-from-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/09\/09\/third-first-nations-person-dies-from-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Third First Nations person dies from COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

A third First Nations person has died from COVID-19 in less than two-weeks. This comes as infections in western New South Wales have ballooned to 885 and 63% of cases are First Nations people.
\nSenator Lidia Thorpe, the Greens First Nations Spokesperson said:<\/strong>
\n\u201cFirst Nations people are in mourning because the Morrison government failed to follow their own guidelines and treat First Nations vaccinations as a priority. This level of incompetence and neglect is having devastating impacts on our communities.
\n\u201cHow many more people need to die before this inept government figures out how to do their job and protect First Nations people from this disease? They were given culturally safe and geo-politically relevant strategies on how to do this 18 months ago, but they\u2019re still not listening.
\n\u201cThe Morrison government has created a new gap between non-Indigenous and First Nations vaccination rates and new dangers are emerging.
\n\u201cPredatory conspiracy theorists like John Huntley have targeted Wilcannia, trying to coax people into taking ivermectin. Huntley literally called the town a \u201cpetri dish\u201d and told the press he was planning on \u201cgetting around\u201d attempts to stop the drug being used in the town. What\u2019s the Morrison government going to do about this?
\n\u201cThis government has continued decades of neglect that has left people in regional areas without access to a properly resourced healthcare sector. Scott Morrison needs to spend less time on private jets and more time addressing how his government has put First Nations people in danger.
\n“The people deserve better than this.” Said Thorpe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A third First Nations person has died from COVID-19 in less than two-weeks. This comes as infections in western New South Wales have ballooned to 885 and 63% of cases are First Nations people. Senator Lidia Thorpe, the Greens First Nations Spokesperson said: \u201cFirst Nations people are in mourning because the Morrison government failed to … Continue reading “Third First Nations person dies from COVID-19”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}